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WordPress for Education

By : Adam Scott
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WordPress for Education

By: Adam Scott

Overview of this book

WordPress is typically known as a platform for blogging. However, the versatility and simplicity of WordPress makes it the perfect solution for the needs of professional educators. WordPress for Education guides readers through the practical applications of WordPress in a classroom setting. Readers will gain an understanding of the WordPress platform and how it can be used to create powerful classroom websites. WordPress for Education guides educators through the process of setting up a typical class website, creating student blogs, and using WordPress to power a learning management system. WordPress for Education provides clear and practical examples for using WordPress within the classroom. It will empower educators to create useful and engaging e-learning websites. Through the examples given in the book, you will gain an understanding of how to use WordPress to build an engaging and easy to update e-learning website. You will also learn about a variety of WordPress plugins that extend its abilities and usefulness in an educational environment, such as creating student blogs, keeping track of classroom events, managing coursework, and developing a classroom social network.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Summary


Through this chapter we've taken a closer look at Pages and Posts by exploring the visual editor, publishing options, categories, and tags. We created a page titled Home and set it as the static home page of our site as well as a Syllabus page with content copied and pasted from a Word processor. We updated a post with an image and new text and wrote a new post that includes an embedded video.

Additionally, we gave our site a fresh look by searching for and installing a new theme. With our new theme in place, we added additional content and functionality using widgets and created a custom menu for improved navigation.

In the next chapter we will look at the use of WordPress plugins to enhance the functionality of our site.